The Black Death | 3. living through the plague
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Did Not All the Members of the Church Disappear?
While bishops were better able to stay cloistered away in their palaces, parish priests were expected to be working closely with their communities. While clearly some priests did flee from their duties, others stayed to help, and many paid the price. In 13 forty eight, this is a fairly democratic or egaltarian pandemic. And the rich are dying in great numbers, perhaps not as much as the poor,. As work byar is from the royal men and in londont suggests that it was mainly the poor that died from these mass burials.
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